Writers: Joshua Wong

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Joshua Wong is the secretary general of the Demosistō party and founder of student activism group Scholarism. He is best known for leading fellow students in the pro-democracy Umbrella Movement, a massive protest that demanded genuine universal suffrage in Hong Kong. He was named one of TIME magazine’s Most Influential Teens of 2014 and was nominated for TIME’s 2014 Person of the Year.

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